Triple
T3613952
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Alexander Stephen and Sons |
E76554
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Alexander Stephen
Alexander Stephen was a Scottish shipbuilder and entrepreneur best known for establishing the prominent shipbuilding firm Alexander Stephen and Sons on the River Clyde.
|
E374102
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Alexander Stephen | Statement: [Alexander Stephen and Sons, foundedBy, Alexander Stephen]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Stephen Context triple: [Alexander Stephen and Sons, foundedBy, Alexander Stephen]
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A.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
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B.
Jefferson C. Davis
Jefferson C. Davis was a controversial Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a U.S. Army officer involved in various Indian Wars in the American West.
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C.
James Buchanan Johnston
James Buchanan Johnston was the adopted son and ward of Harriet Lane, the niece and de facto First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan.
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D.
Andrew Jackson Donelson
Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
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E.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Alexander Stephen Triple: [Alexander Stephen and Sons, foundedBy, Alexander Stephen]
Generated description
Alexander Stephen was a Scottish shipbuilder and entrepreneur best known for establishing the prominent shipbuilding firm Alexander Stephen and Sons on the River Clyde.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Stephen Target entity description: Alexander Stephen was a Scottish shipbuilder and entrepreneur best known for establishing the prominent shipbuilding firm Alexander Stephen and Sons on the River Clyde.
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A.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
-
B.
Jefferson C. Davis
Jefferson C. Davis was a controversial Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a U.S. Army officer involved in various Indian Wars in the American West.
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C.
James Buchanan Johnston
James Buchanan Johnston was the adopted son and ward of Harriet Lane, the niece and de facto First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan.
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D.
Andrew Jackson Donelson
Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
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E.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69ad85da0ba481908b3b48c69efe2b98 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc279f6948190b9655a4cf3e77d89 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b43316224081909372f1007becc663 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 3:53 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b4384ae2948190bb5b371ab35a9057 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 4:16 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b438db5e8c8190a6cfcbade88e7d46 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 4:18 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.